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Library of Congress Control Number: 2016943279 ISBN 978-1-119-29136-7 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-29138-1 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-29137-4 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 A Quick Look at What’s Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Icons and Other Stuff to Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 eCheat Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Practice, Be Patient, and Have Fun! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 PART 1: FAST TRACK TO SUPER SNAPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 CHAPTER 1: Getting the Lay of the Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Looking at Lenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Choosing a lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Attaching and removing a lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Zooming in and out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Using an IS (image stabilizer) lens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Getting acquainted with focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Adjusting the Viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Adjusting the Monitor Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Using the Touchscreen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Working with Memory Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Exploring External Camera Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Topside controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Back-of-the-body controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Front odds and ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 Connection ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Ordering from Camera Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Navigating the Custom Functions Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Monitoring Critical Camera Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 The Info button: Choosing what the screen shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Checking the Camera Settings display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Viewing the Shooting Settings display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Decoding viewfinder data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Reading the LCD panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Changing Settings via the Quick Control Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Getting Help from Your Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Reviewing Basic Setup Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Cruising the Setup menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Setting up the Lock switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Taking two final setup steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Table of Contents iii CHAPTER 2: Choosing Basic Picture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 Choosing an Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Changing the Drive Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Getting Familiar with the Built-in Flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Using flash in the fully automatic modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Enabling flash in advanced exposure modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Using Red-Eye R eduction flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Controlling Picture Quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Diagnosing quality problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Decoding the Image Quality options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Considering Resolution: Large, Medium, or Small? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Understanding File Type (JPEG or Raw) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 JPEG: The imaging (and web) standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Raw (CR2): The purist’s choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Our take: Choose Fine or Raw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Setting the Photo Aspect Ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 CHAPTER 3: Taking Great Pictures, Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75 As Easy As It Gets: Auto and Flash Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Taking Advantage of Scene (SCN) Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79 Modifying scene mode results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 Gaining More Control with Creative Auto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Exploring Live View Shooting and CHAPTER 4: Movie Making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Reviewing Live View and Movie mode cautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Customizing the display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Focusing in Live View and Movie Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Continuous autofocusing in Movie mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Choosing an AF ( autofocus) mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 Manual focusing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 Zooming in for a focus check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .115 Exploring Other Live View Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Adjusting other Live View picture settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116 Using the touch shutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Recording Your First Movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Customizing Movie Recording Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 Shooting Menu 4 (Movie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Shooting Menu 5 (Movie) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Using Movie Digital Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Playing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136 iv Canon EOS 80D For Dummies PART 2: WORKING WITH PICTURE FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 CHAPTER 5: Picture Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Disabling and Adjusting Image Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 Exploring Playback Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Switching to Index (thumbnails) view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Using the Quick Control screen during playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Jumping through images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 Rotating pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Zooming in for a closer view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Viewing Picture Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151 Basic Information display data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Shooting Information display mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 Understanding histograms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Enabling a few display extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .159 Deleting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Erasing single images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Erasing all images on the memory card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Erasing selected images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Protecting Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Protecting (or unprotecting) a single photo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .162 Protecting multiple photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163 Rating Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Viewing Your Photos on a Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Downloading, Printing, and Sharing CHAPTER 6: Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Installing the Canon Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Sending Pictures to the Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Connecting camera and computer via USB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172 Connecting to the computer via Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Downloading from the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Downloading from a card reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Processing Raw (CR2) Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Processing Raw images in the camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Converting Raw images in Digital Photo Professional . . . . . . . . . . 182 Planning for Perfect Prints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185 Preparing Pictures for Online Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Table of Contents v PART 3: TAKING CREATIVE CONTROL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 CHAPTER 7: Getting Creative with Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Kicking Your Camera into High Gear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Introducing Exposure Basics: Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO . . . .193 Understanding exposure-setting side e ffects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .195 Doing the exposure balancing act . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Monitoring Exposure Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Choosing an Exposure Metering Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Setting ISO, f-stop, and Shutter Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Controlling ISO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Adjusting aperture and shutter speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Sorting through Your Camera’s Exposure-Correction Tools . . . . . . . .212 Overriding autoexposure results with E xposure Compensation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Improving high-contrast shots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Experimenting with Auto Lighting O ptimizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 Correcting vignetting with Peripheral I llumination Correction . . . 223 Dampening noise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 Locking Autoexposure Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Bracketing Exposures Automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Setting up for automatic bracketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Shooting a bracketed series . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232 Using Flash in Advanced Exposure Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Understanding your camera’s approach to flash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234 Using flash outdoors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Adjusting flash power with Flash Exposure Compensation . . . . . 238 Locking the flash exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Exploring more flash options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .242 CHAPTER 8: Manipulating Focus and Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 Reviewing Focus Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .246 Introducing the AF-ON button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Adjusting Autofocus Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 AF Area mode: One focus point or many? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Changing the AF (autofocus) operation mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Choosing the right autofocus combo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Manipulating Depth of Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Controlling Color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Correcting colors with white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 Changing the White Balance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261 Creating a custom White Balance setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Fine-tuning White Balance settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 Bracketing shots with white balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 Taking a Quick Look at Picture Styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 vi Canon EOS 80D For Dummies CHAPTER 9: Putting It All Together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Recapping Basic Picture Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Setting Up for Specific Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282 Shooting still portraits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .282 Capturing action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287 Capturing scenic vistas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Capturing dynamic close-ups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293 PART 4: THE PART OF TENS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 CHAPTER 10: Ten Features to Explore on a Rainy Day . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Enabling Mirror Lockup Shooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Adding Cleaning Instructions to Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 Tagging Files with Your Copyright Claim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Exploring Wi-Fi Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302 Experimenting with Creative Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 Shooting in Multiple Exposure Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307 Investigating Two More Printing Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308 Presenting a Slide Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .309 Editing Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 Creating Video Snapshots and Time Lapse Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 CHAPTER 11: Ten More Ways to Customize Your Camera . . . . . . . 313 Creating Your Own Exposure Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 Creating Your Very Own Camera Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315 Creating Custom Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Changing the Color Space from sRGB to Adobe RGB . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318 Changing the Direction of the Dials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Changing All the Furniture Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319 Disabling the AF-Assist Beam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 Controlling the Lens Focus Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322 Making the Flashing Red AF Points Go Away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 Considering a Few Other Autofocusing Tweaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Table of Contents vii